A while back, I start a series of posts in which I talked about how role-playing games don't transition well to the world of fiction. Then, I started writing my weekly column over at http://www.dragonsbay.co/. In "Stranger Than Fiction," I ramble on about…
In the next few day, I'll be throwing up an couple of new sub-pages to my blog. Taking an idea from George RR Martin's web site, I'll be adding pages for "What I'm Reading" and "What I'm…
I suppose I'm getting even closer to reaching the coveted status of... crud, I forgot what words I was going to use to describe what kind of writer I was becoming... not regular, or professional... I had a great word, and poof, it went away. (I dwell in…
Wow, it's been busy. Kindle is an exciting and wonderful thing. "Knight of the Living Dead" is doing well. Not as well as I'd hoped and dreamed for (but only one book can be #1) and better than I expected, we're above…
Write a scene in which a character is ranting about something he or she dislikes. Use that rant to reveal a deep core value of the character that he or she does not realize about herself.…
Write a scene comprised only of dialog between two characters. Us dialog tags as sparingly as possible. Make each character uniques as possible by the words they use.…
For those of you who may not heard, I'm up on Kindle. Well, at least a story that I co-wrote with my friend Steve Moore is. It's been on Amazon for about a week. Knight of the Living Dead (3 Strange Knights) I also recently received…
It amazes me how often people give us information about themselves we'd rather not have, or about other people that they really have no business giving us. Again I'd like to delve into storytelling as communication and communication as storytelling, but this time around, let'…
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Write a scene in which the narrator switches from speaking from a limited point-of-view to a PoV that moves more distant, speaking for a group or perhaps becoming omniscient. Strive to earn this transition through the natural flow of prose.…
